Improvement in horn-tip for cattle



-have invented an Improved Horn-Tip for Cattle; and

' or ball that my invention consists.

t? en wessasw @gattinii 'GB J. C. THOMPSON, OF CHARLESTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters Patent No. 86,882,

dated Februar/ry 9, V1869.

IIVIPROVEMENT IN- HORN-TIP FOR CATTLE.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the :same` To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J. (l. THOMPSON, of Charlestown, in the county of Middlesex, and State of Massachusetts,

I do hereby declare that the following, taken in connection with the drawings which accompany and form part of this speciiication, is a description of my inven, tion suiiicient to enable those skilled in the'art to practise it. To prevent domestic horned cattle from injuring one another with the sharp points of their horns, it is customary to tip the horns of such bovine cattle'as are' inclined to hook with their horns, with metal balls, which so blunt the points of the horns as to prevent the cattle from goring.

Sucl1balls, however, are not always effectual to prevent vicious cattle from goring, as the metal isv unyielding, and, upon being thrust with force against the iiesh, may penetrate and iniiict as dangerous or as ugly a wound as will, under similar circumstances, be indicted by the sharp-pointed horn.

To obviate this, I tip each horn with a rubber-sur-- faced metal tip, or with a rubber ball which is mounted upon a metal nut or screw-ferrule, by which ferrule the ball is fixed upon the horn; and it is in such a horn-tip The drawing representsa'horn-ball'or tip embodying my improvement.

A shows a section of the same.

B, an inner end view. l

al denotes the metal socket-piece, or ferrule, having a screw or nut-thread, b, by which it is screwed upon the point of a horn, and a neck, c, at the outer end of which is a ange, d.

c denotes the elastic ball, preferably made of rubber, or of rubber or caoutchouc compound, and preferably' vulcanized directly upon the neck c, when moulded, though it may beseparately moulded with a recess, by means of which it can be stretched over the neck, to which it can be fastened by cement.

So made'and applied to the horns of acoW or other bovine animal, these tips will be found enduring, and

effective in preventing injury to other cattle, and toA the wood-work of the stall in which the animal may be confined.

I claim, as a new article oi manufacture, a horn-tip for cattle, made of rubber, or of rubber or other elastic compound, vulcanized or cemented upon the neck of a metal screw-ferrule or socket-piece, substantially as described.

J. o. THOMPSON.`

Witnesses J. B. CROSBY, FRANCIS GoULn. 

